ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
STIEG PERSSON
1959 Born Melbourne, Australia Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION 1981 Bachelor of Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 1998 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Polyphonic, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Stieg Persson: How we live now, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 2014 The Fragonard Room, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne 2010 Crypsis, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Works on Paper, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Old Europe, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney 2006 History Painting, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Anna Schwartz Gallery at the Depot Gallery, Sydney 2004 The Fall, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Backmasking: The art of Stieg Persson, Bendigo Art Gallery; Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery; Hamilton Art Gallery 2001 Backmasking: The art of Stieg Persson, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne 2000 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 1999 Sherman Galleries, Sydney 1998 Södra, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 1996 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 1994 Recent Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Sherman Goodhope, Sydney 1993 Works on Paper, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 1992 Manet’s Leg, City Gallery, Melbourne 1991 City Gallery, Melbourne Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 1989 Witchcraft by a Painting, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney City Gallery, Melbourne 1988 Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney City Gallery, Melbourne 1987 Expression, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1986 Our Faith: The Case for and Against Colour, Part 1, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney Our Faith: The Case for and Against Colour, Part 1, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne 1985 After Colour, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 1984 Poisonous Weeds, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne 1983 United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 2020 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2019 2019 Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria Never the same river, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT, Selected works from the Bus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Manifesto, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne The Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
2017 Collective Vision: 130 Years, Bendigo Art Gallery The National 2017: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Romancing the Skull, Art Gallery of Ballarat 2017 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Art Gallery Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017, Orange Regional Gallery 2016 Black to Blackest, curated by Una Rey, Geelong Art Gallery Painting, More Painting – Chapter 2, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2014 Luminous World-Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Inveresk Luminous World-Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra 2013 Theatre of the World, La Maison Rouge, Paris Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2012 Luminous World-Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Recent Acquisitions, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville Museums in the Incident, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Drawing Out 2012, Global Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts, London 2010 Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney 2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Art Gallery, Victoria Neo goth: back in black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Selected works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2006 Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria 2005 A Short Ride in a Fast Machine-Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985 – 2005, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2004 Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia 2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia Untitled - Abstraction from the Contemporary Australian Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2002 Nocturne, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia 2000 Death and Decoration, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia 1999 Hobart City Art Prize, Hobart 1998 On the ashes of the stars... Stéphane Mallarmé, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast, Australia 1997 Artrage, Artworks for Television, Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane; Artspace, Sydney 1995 Decadence: 10 years of exhibitions at 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Melbourne Sherman Gallery at NiCAF’95, Yokahama, Japan 1994 Interfaces: Art & Technology, Ron McMaster Gallery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; touring regional galleries in Queensland Contemporary Australian Art, Government House, Perth The Black Show, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wollongong City Gallery, Nolan Gallery, Canberra Age of the ’80’s - Baillieu Myer Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne The John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1993 The Black Show, Geelong Art Gallery, Waverley Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Australia Thought Painting, Michael Milburn Galleries Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1992 City Gallery, Melbourne 1991 8 Contemporary Artists, City Gallery, Melbourne Past, Future, Present, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne The Corporeal Body, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Artists in Hospital, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Twelve Logos, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Art and the Cancer Ward, Linden Gallery, Melbourne St .Kilda Scapes and Other Exhibits, The St. Kilda Collection, Melbourne Loaded, 13 Verity St, Richmond Tram Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1990 ARCO Art Fair, City Gallery, Madrid 2nd Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne In Full Sunlight, aglassofwater, Brisbane, 10,000 feet, West Melbourne & First Draft, Sydney Greenpeace Benefit, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Inland, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Mist From the Chest, aglassofwater, Brisbane Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art, Waikato Museum of Art & Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton 1989 Cosmos, City Gallery, Melbourne The Intimate Object, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne I.C.I. Collection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (and national tour) Annotations, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Artists under Saturn, Ian Potter Gallery: University of Melbourne, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Australia Scotchman Hill Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery The Stephen Murray - Smith Portfolio, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne 1988 The Victor and Loti Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne A New Generation: The Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Advance Australian Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of Western Australia; International Tour, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Stuttgart Wurttembergische Kunsterverein (1989), West Germany Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne 1st Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne 9X5XMAIL, The Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise 1987 Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Bohemia, Linden Gallery, Melbourne The Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1986 Fears and Scruples, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne Slouching towards Bethlehem: Preparatory Drawings, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne; University of Tasmania, Hobart; Canberra School of Art The Source, University of Tasmania, Hobart Pharmakon, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney Recent Acquisitions, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra 1985 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Four Melbourne Artists, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane The Pleasure of the Gaze, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Recent Acquisitions - St.Kilda City Council, Linden Gallery, Melbourne 1984 Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Bendigo Art Gallery; Wollongong Art Gallery The Australians: Three Generations of Drawing, CDS. Gallery, New York Off Colour, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 1983 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne; Mornington Peninsula Gallery
AWARDS 2020 Margaret Olley Commendation Award, Mosman Art Prize, Sydney 2015 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre (BACC), Brighton 2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery 1988 Artist-in-residence, Oncology Unit, General Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg 1987 H.V. Evatt Foundation Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Tram Commission, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne 1985 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Secondary Award
COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Artbank Australia Auckland Art Gallery Bayside City Council, Victoria ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
Bendigo Art Gallery City of Port Phillip, Melbourne Geelong Art Gallery Griffith University, Brisbane Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Australia Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Metropolitan Museum, New York Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art St.Kilda City Council, Melbourne UQ Art Museum, Brisbane University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vizard Foundation of Contemporary Art, University of Melbourne Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton Private and corporate collections